Joeli McQuaid

Joeli McQuaid is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Connecticut with 33 years of professional experience supporting adults through stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and the challenges that come with major life transitions. She also works with concerns such as depression, grief, and relationship difficulties, including patterns connected to personality and attachment style.

Her background includes many years in inpatient and outpatient hospital care as well as varied community settings, where she served diverse adult populations. Alongside leadership responsibilities in management and supervision, she continued providing direct clinical care, including during the pandemic. In more recent years, she has focused on working with clients individually, one person at a time, in a role aligned with her long-held goal of helping others through therapy.

Joeli approaches therapy with the belief that each person is the expert on their own life story. She emphasizes strengths-based support and collaborates with clients to identify the inner resources and practical strategies that can help them move through what feels difficult. With attentive listening, sensitivity to the topics clients bring, and a nonjudgmental stance, she offers thoughtful reframing, feedback, and gentle suggestions - and when it fits, a grounded sense of humor - to help build a trusting working relationship that supports meaningful change.